>> we did our best. >>pam: graffiti and broken windows. as the costs goes up, emotions are rising and tolerance is shrinking. >> downtown looks like a war zone. >>pam: tonight at 8:00 p.m., this city of oakland is dealing with the aftermath of violence and vandalism that followed hours of mostly peaceful demonstrations during the general strike for the occupy oakland protesters. j.r stone is live and has

the latest. >>j.r.: i was just upstairs in the meeting that started at 6:00 p.m.. it is likely to go on for a few more hours. at least 100 people have signed up to speak, many of them from the group occupy oakland. at times, things have gotten heated. one man was escorted out by police. >> you bulldozed our homes. we will not forget what you did. someone called a police officer. you are all under citizen's arrest. >> your time is up unless someone else wants to give up their time. officer, escort him away from the microphone please.

>> there is a small element in this crowd that has done some pretty horrendous things. essentially, this movement is potentially a positive thing with many things that need to be fixed. >> an officer should be prosecuted for throwing a tear-gas canister into a crowd of innocent bystanders. >>j.r.: the police chief spoke with the last 30 minutes. he was booed. you may be asking yourself, what will come from this meeting, i spoke with those of a city council earlier today. they said this is a meeting to hear the folks from occupy oakland give their thoughts and take those thoughts into consideration. j.r stone,

kron4 news. >>pam: the mayor spoke earlier in the day. she believes that the relationship between the city and the occupy oakland group is actually improving. haaziq madyun has more. >>haaziq: >>dan: a very small group of people can create chaos within a demonstration. >>haaziq: of the oakland mayor said that wednesday's strike was predominantly peaceful that the eighth time for worse at the hands of a few violent protesters. >> in the evening we had the opportunity to isolate the main group of people who seemed to be hiding in the crowd all day. i think that the police effectively got in, surrounded and arrested them. >>haaziq: not before damage like this happened. >> we did our best to respond. >>haaziq: the mayor said communication with occupy oakland protesters have improved. if that that kind

of communication must continue. i want to meet with them and speak with them and i hope it will stick with us. >>haaziq: she is on short with how long this city can go on with paying for protesters. >> i wish i knew. there are some people talking, there is growing community pressure on them to speak with us. the only resolution that we can have is speaking to each other. >>pam: in the meantime, police are drawn a clear distinction between those cause and the vandalism and violence and those who want to protest peacefully. dan kerman is to be as live with details on information police plan together of those arrested. >>dan: this is some of the

vandalism. this window is blown out. these are things they see all over the area. police are drawing a clear line in the sand. people who are protesting peacefully and of those who want to cause trouble. >>dan: this is video of the confrontation that broke out between protesters and police near oakland city hall hours after thousands the defeated in wednesday's peaceful march in and shut down of the port of oakland. police say there is a clear difference between the two groups. >>officer: we consider them anarchists, people intent on causing damage whether this is worse is peaceful or not. >>dan: these are the tools of their trade. rocks, bottles, some containing caustic liquid. fire extinguishers filled with

paint. hammers and screwdrivers. >>officer: we arrest the people we thought were responsible for the damage last night were creating problems. >>dan: in all, 80 people were arrested. there could be more. >>officer: we want a list of all of the people. we are comparing their arrests to others. if they are causing problems over and over again, we may need to take things in a different direction, filing civil injunctions, things that we did last year with some demonstrators. >>dan: on friday, more of the repair work continues to. also on friday, police are expected to release additional videos as well as its pictures, hoping to identify more of the evangelists. dan kermit, kron4 news. >>pam: overall, the occupy oakland message was diluted

because of the vandalisms. jeff bush spoke with members of occupy oakland. jeff >> occupy oakland organizers called a press conference, but when pressed on the issue of the vandalism, one spokesperson tried to stay on her talking point. >> i think it is that journalism to concentrate on a few broken windows when you have tens of thousands of people coming to the streets to protest in a variety of ways. jeff >> it was more than a few broken windows. several businesses were damaged and by morning, class from broken windows crowned in graffiti on walls. another person from occupy oakland said that violence has no place in a movement. >> we do not graffiti or break windows. we are nonviolent. this movement is nonviolent. how is hurting a business helping

the community? they are a part of the community. jeff >> it is difficult to get a straight answer from the group. there is no centralized leadership within the occupy movement. >>robin: a few sprinkles out there over orenda and oakland. mostly cloudy skies for the bay area tonight. just a few sprinkles lingering. temperatures are still on the call side. take a look at current conditions. cool temperatures. a big drop compared to yesterday. i will have a full forecast some of shortly. more rain on the way. >>pam: the news is just getting started. we have more on the fallout from yesterday's occupy oakland

to movement. the city of oakland has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on police. coming up, the impact on the city. if >> i am calling in today, i am not going to court. i am going to clean the city. >>pam: residents come together to clean up after last night's vandalism. >>j.r.: coming up, at 8:00 p.m..

>>kimberlee: there were too protesters that were hit by a car last night. keep an eye on the white car trying to go slowly through the intersection. the car is stopped by a man and a white shirt. he stopped the car from proceeding and when the cartwrights and inch further, the man slammed

his hands on the hood of the car in the that is when the car took off. if there were too protesters that were injured. there, you can see them being tended to by paramedics. the two were taken to the hospital but expected to survive. the driver was not arrested. >>gary: coming up later, we will talk about the last time people were sweating over the golden state warriors.

>>grant: and just after midnight, police were directed to use tear gas and beanbag bullets to clear protesters out. >> they started to light fires. gramm >> the battle last night lasted for hours.

>> they broke the window. what is that doing for the

committee? now, they have to spend money to fix that. it is not people from oakland doing that. do not come to our city and tear up our city. >>grant: over 100 protesters were arrested. >>pam: said damage was extensive last night. this is video from an east bay surgery center near frank ogawa plaza. windows were shattered. this video is from a youth center in oakland. the walls were spray-painted with messages that say stage one of the resolution. this is a worker power washing graffiti. >>pam: the port of oakland

was set down yesterday, a small handful of protesters stayed overnight. all left, you can see how they'd what people who showed up for work. but their kids were taken down at about 9:00 a.m. after someone from longshoremen's union got involved furious the economic impact of yesterday's action will not be known until sometime next week. maureen kelly spoke to small business owners who depend on business and they say they already know they were hurt by yesterday's protests. >>maureen: this was one of the drivers stuck in his big rig during the port shutdown. today he is one of the independent truckers tried to make up for lost time. >> it costs a lot of money to operate these trucks. it

is just another loss. third >>maureen: businesses had to shorten hours or close and could not open until late on thursday because of the small handful of protesters that kept streets closed. >> my business is like most businesses right now. we are still trying to hang in there. having to shut down costs money. >>maureen: base support the general idea, >> i support what the protesters are about, but i have a small business and they cannot afford to be shut down. >> we are a part of the 99%.

>>robin: light showers and cooler temperatures through the bay area. this system is bringing us cooler weather and scattered showers. hist here is storm tracker 4. over the sierra, rain in and sell. this evening, you can see by 9:00 p.m., scattered sprinkles the. as we head into friday, there is a chance of thunderstorm activity lead tonight into friday morning. by friday afternoon mostly in the clear. scattered showers, a little over one-tenth of an inch of rain. 49 degrees in redwood city, 50 in san jose curie cooler to voters throughout the bay area.

tomorrow, scattered showers in the morning. temperatures will start of school in the '50s and stayed there through noon. partly sunny skies, 58 in san jose, 58 for san francisco. more on the rain in your extended forecast coming up. >>gabe: apple has acknowledged that it is a problem with the battery life of a new iphone 4s. more of that covenant.

>>gabe: some users are already reporting improvements. the battery strings of a new high for-- the battery drain on the new iphone 4s was due to applications running in the background that were

draining the battery. apple said a statement saying that they found a few bugs that are affecting battery life. before you return the new iphone 4s, apple is aware of the problem. they are claiming to fix it. in other news, i am doing a giveaway. you could win a free bran nukes laptop desk. it secures electronic devices. it features an adjustable to >>pam: amd is planning layoffs. the layoffs will save the company about $2 million. amd says that it

has to make cuts because personal-computer sales are down. >> it is going to cost a lot of money. >>pam: how much will last night's violence costs the city of oakland? we will survey the damage coming up.

>>pam: last night's demonstrations took a violent turn. here is video from last night. a small group from the more than 5000 participants from earlier in the day. they clashed with police downtown. in the daylight, you can see the extent of the vandalism. alejandra cerball has more on how much this will cost the city. >>alejandra: the city has not released how much of wednesday's demonstration causecosts taxpayers. >> it means for the community will get less services. >>alejandra: estimates are $1 million from the occupy oakland sweep last week but there still crunching the

numbers. >> last week for the police department, the cost were $700,000. i am in the process of collecting additional costs from other departments that participated in cleanup or in response. >>alejandra: of the mayor says the chief had people on 12 hour shifts in order to reduce the cost. >> it will buy heavily into overtime. that will take away services for the community. >>pam: the police department's internal affairs office was also targeted during last night's vandalism. kron4's spoke with the president of the police officers association about the impact of the city. >> this is a pretty bad. this is terrible. it looks like a war zone. that will cost a lot of money. this business closed down. this

business clothes in solidarity. that is how they get paid back. there is a sign that says kill cops. is that feasible? this makes downtown look like a war zone. this is terrible. who wants to come here and shop? but at the end of all of this, who pays? the citizens of oakland, the services, the windows on a city hall, that will be from the taxpayer money.

>> i am disappointed and distressed over the damage that has been done. i am very disappointed that the city did not take a stronger hand. what i am hearing from the business community, there is great disappointment because they have empowered the protesters by letting them do what they want to do with no restrictions. that has been a major problem for the business community. we have three different tenants that were in the final stages of deals and they pulled out. a 100 employee company, a 35,000 sq. ft. tenant in a 15,000 sq. ft. tenant. thousands of people come to town to enjoy the restaurants, bars and the

art galleries. this one groove is creating havoc. the camp must close. >>pam: as protesters and police clashed, one downtown business mantic it upon themselves to protect his business place. charles clifford spoke with him about what happened. >> it was an unnerving experience. >>charles: he has lived in oakland for his entire life. >> this is how i feed my family. >>charles: he said early thursday, vandals surrounded the building and tried to get it. he sent an unarmed security guard and janitors to the upper floors and grabbed a loaded shotgun in the into position near the entrance. >> some anarchists or trying to make their way inside. i

was in the hallway as they were coming through the door. i asked them to leave. i had the shotgun at my side, i lifted it and they've left out of the building. >>charles: the vandals never try to get back did. thursday afternoon, he did still see graffiti on the side of the building. he respects occupy oakland right to protest, but when the protests turned to violence, the movement loses credibility. >> occupy oakland has demonstrated that they cannot manage to the movement that they have going on and steps need to be taken to make sure what has happened over the last few weeks does not happen again. >>pam: a group of oakland business leaders and clergy weighed in on the occupy oakland protests. they say the movement is taking a toll on the city's dwindling resources.

>> we are the citizens, business people and to ministers of the city. all we are doing is asking them as citizens, as the people who live here, as those who practice their faith in the community, give us a break. that is really all we are seeing. >> most people share the occupy oakland views about the economy and the read about our company's infrastructure, but using oakland as a battlefield for an attack on wall street, occupy oakland is hurting the very people that it is trying to help. >> i am very concerned about the safety of our citizens. sometimes these things rise up and it puts the attention to this city. we are concerned about the safety of our citizens. >> on october 29th, patrol officers were redirected to

downtown to the associated with occupy oakland. police overtime has cost more than $1 million. oakland citizens cannot afford the costs resulting from the actions occupy oakland. >>pam: the group has stressed that one of the major concerns is that oakland police are not able to respond to other phone calls for service. >>robin: a little bit of activity offshore but mostly clear skies. there is not a lot of rain. most of the activity is to the east. we are down almost 20 degrees in most locations. highs today were only in the '60s. a winter weather advisory is in a place for the sierra. light-moderate

snow. third wind gusts up to 50 mi. per hour. if you're heading up their, drive carefully. we will talk more about the weekend forecast coming up. >>pam: new allegations of excessive force and staffed by san francisco police officers. take a look at this new surveillance video. it shows an altercation between police and the owner of a market. the officer kicked the owner on his legs, there he is kicking his legs from underneath him. these claims, after other surveillance video of plainclothes officers was shown, they were taking items from a hotel room that were never accounted for and evidence. if >>pam: a vacaville of fully of the school system was arrested for possession of pornography. the material

was found on his personal laptop. he has been placed on administrative leave pending further investigation. we have more news from around the bay. in fairfield, the trial for a woman accused of murdering her three children and another child. this is video on the scene of the house fire that killed the four children. the oldest of those children was only 4 years old. police say that she left the house while candles were burning inside. that is what ultimately started the fire. by the time the firefighters got to the scene, it was too late to save the children inside. >>stanley: coming out, i take a look at the vandalism in oakland in the next edition of people behaving badly. >>pam: coming up at 11:00 p.m., women in the military are taking on a new role. we're taking on a special

mission as they tackle some of the toughest challenges in the war zone. >>pam: are you ready to start holiday shopping? we will tell you how to start cashing in on black friday deals in the morning local moose coming up.

>>pam: here is stanley roberts. >>stanley: 99% of the people involved in the protests are not involved with what i am about to show you. broken windows, graffiti and fighters serious 99 percent had absolutely nothing to do with these windows or the inside this building however, because of the actions of the 1%, the voice of the 99 percent have been drowned out. >> for them to come through and break windows, there is

no call for that. >>stanley: many shops like this one up were closed out of fear. is the meaning lost with all of this vandalism? >> businesses are hurt financially. >>stanley: if the business is hurt financially, isn't the community her? >> yes. there is a group that goes by the name black block. they are not even from oakland. most are not even from california. that one percent has killed the voice of a 99% will love the city of oakland. >> the graffiti and violence is not supporting the movement.

>>stanley: this is dave from occupied petaluma. >>stanley: no one has the right to tear up your community, ever! >>pam: coming up next, gary rack nejd talking high school football. gary and sports is coming up next.

>>grant: take a look at these numbers of the people arrested yesterday. the initial estimate to replace the damaged yesterday, between $20,000-$25,000.

>>robin: a big cool down in temperatures. showers lingering it throughout the evening. by 4:00 p.m. on friday morning, a few patches of clouds. mostly clear skies for friday afternoon. temperatures are down throughout the bay area, mostly '50s and '60s. expect cool conditions and mostly cloudy skies. here is a look at your 7 day around the bay extended forecast. another chance of showers for wednesday. >>gary: this evening. an all-time giants passed away today.

>>gary: there is, fred couples at - 3. harding park in san francisco, they will be there throughout the weekend. offs

>>gary: there is an nba lockout but there will be a special team plane on saturday night. >>gary: what do you remember most about that? >> mostly talk about the crowd, who was in the crowd and how amazing the crowd was. >>gary: that was a shame to dunk over a white russian like that.

>> the crowd was amazing. >>gary: what kept the team together? >> we talk about that every year. we could have made some things happened. >>gary: you cannot talk about a lockout. how much is a fine? $100,000? most people say you all are millionaires. >> that is the picture people are trying to paint. they think we're fighting for more money, we're just fighting for the money we already have. >>gary: there is your team me. kobe brand. what is he like to play with? >> amazing.

>>gary: when we return, an old friend, our high school coach of the week. the

staff

>>gary: our coach of the week from aragon high school. the 49ers along with channel 4 had a coat of the week deal. $1,000 for the school. how come you guys are so good? >> we have a good group of kids that play well together. they are not selfish.

>> we are winning because of me. i actually went diridon high school. >>gary: you found something you like the and you are able to stay at your school. >> i feel like the luckiest guy in the world. i played football, baseball and basketball. i went to st. mary's and switched to rugby. >>gary: who do you have coming up this week?

>> half moon bay. they are a good team. >>gary: you are a sharp guy. >>gary: let's hear about how some of the coaches kids feel. phil >> we make sure we do not get lazy. he does not let us get lazy. he tells it to us straight pretty much. >> it looks like you guys are buying what he is selling. >>gary: coast, introduced your kids. >> this is my son, he has been our ball boy and next

year's. this is my daughter, maria. >>gary: coach, congratulations. >> thank you.

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